A Simple Favour. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, Henry Golding, Glenda Braganza, Andrew Rannells, Dustin Milligan, Danielle Bourgon, Gia Sandhu, Zack Smadu, Andrew Moodie, Sugenja Sri, Rupert Friend, Bashir Salahuddin, Eric Johnson, Linda Cardellini, Paul Jurewisc, Sarah Baker, Jean Smart, Roger Dunn, Nicole Peters, Lauren Peters.

The Little Stranger. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter, Charlotte Rampling, Josh Dylan, Katie Phillips, Anna Madeley, Camilla Afwedson, Tim Plester, Dixie Egerickx, Darren Kent, Amy Marston, Lorne MacFadyen, Thea Balich, Alison Pargeter, Tipper Seifert-Cleveland, Sarah Crowden, Liv Hill, Kathryn O’ Reilly, Oliver Zetterstrom, Martin Carroll.

American Animals. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast:  Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, Spencer Reinhard, Warren Lipka, Eric Borsuk, Chas Allen, Betty Jean Gooch, Ann Dowd, Laura Grice, Udo Kier, Fedor Steer, Jack Landry, Wayne Duvall, Whitney Goin, Gary Basaraba, Robert C. Treveiler, Jane McNeill, Dorothy Reynolds, Maggie Lacey.

The overall problem with most cinematic experiences is that with some certain emotions, the truth of understanding them, even seeing them portrayed, is as likely as receiving an apologetic face from a pet cat after it has done its business in the wrong place; some reactions, some sentiments are impossible to replicate, even in the hands of a master actor.

Somewhere On Dartmoor, Will Lay Eternal.

 

The train will take me

onwards, an electric hum

a bitter substitute

for the days of steam

and the loosely packed sandwich

that flirts suggestively

with the expiry date

and the unflavoured tea,

hot, sweet, dull as yesterday’s dishwater;

this journey will be different

to the one that we took when

fans in red and thick west

Lancashire accents

set fire to the carriage

and the driver sped on,

eating up miles in an attempt

to blow it out, steam train serenade.

Alexander O’Neal’s U.K. Tour Coming To Liverpool’s Olympia This December.

Securing his name in the R&B history books, Alexander O’Neal is one of the genres most iconic names. With chart smash Criticize lighting up dance floors across the world thirty-years after its release, his sound has transcended generations.

Working with Prince back in the early days as part of The Time his journey in and out of various band formations propelled him to be the solo artist that audiences best know him for today.

American born, Alexander O’Neal has created a cult appreciation across the globe. His back catalogue transporting his singles in to the U.K. and Billboard top ten’s as well as a triple platinum selling album and ever-expanding discography.

The First Liverpool Arts Society Production, Long Joan Silver, Comes To The Hope Street Theatre.

Pull up a stool and we’ll tell ye a tale, full of many a sword fight, and plenty of ale! As there be a fact, that ye may not know, that Old Long John Silver, was actually named- Joan. In a world where “Girls aren’t meant to be pirates”, Joan O’Malley sets out to prove her father and his shipmates that girls CAN be pirates too. However, this wannabe buccaneer may end up with more than she bargained for.

Woke, Theatre Review. Unity Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The term might be one in which the ears and the brain dismisses as yet another piece of slang bandied about by the young seeking to confuse or irritate those of the generations that have gone before them, a word seemingly pulled out of thin air, a modern catch-phrase which means nothing to those over 30, after all, if you take heed of the advice of those over a certain age, it is only the young that need to wake up, isn’t it?

Christine And The Queens, Chris. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

When the world is in crisis, it is quite impossible to hear the cry of a single figure. Yet as the darkness comes into every sanctuary possible, as it invades the very heart of what we have to offer, where people look upon you with suspicion for betraying the ghost of a smile and the demon of a heart-felt thanks in your soul, we must still surely see that the whisper of help from even an individual is to be taken as seriously as nation’s grief.

Rachel Newton, West. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Trust in one’s self to create a sense of timeless perfection is perhaps one of the ultimate goals in which any artist can strive for. Trust, it is not always given to those in our company, let alone to ourselves, we may believe that what we do is the singular most important desire to feel and we wish to convey that to others in a bout of confidence, in a show of hands we seek validation, but what we often forget to engage with is understanding, we may love and admire our own creation,  but unless we understand what it will do to others, then the moment is tangible, never timeless.

Gilmore & Roberts, A Problem Of Our Kind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

The problem with our kind of person is that invariably they turn out to be on the wrong side, playing a game of their own choosing, their negativity only becoming apparent when the rules of engagement find a way to spoil their plans; it is in the very best ideals of the Noir detective, of the sinister spoils that infiltrate the world of the spy and the espionage, that those that are not our kind, are always a problem worth dealing with.